36 GERMANY - IXSURANCE AND THRIFT 



1914 1915 



Sum held : 



a) total sum : " 3,145.43 



h) percentage of insured sum " o.So % 



Deficit : 



a) total sum: " 3,185.19 



b) share of federation (* 5) : " 2,548.10 



c) shave of societies " 637.09 



Causes of casualties : 



a) accidents: 5 = 16 % 



b) parturition : 7=22% 



c) piilmonarv affections ■ — — 



Tuberculosis: 5 = 10 % 



' d) consequent on aphthous fever .... 3 = 9 % 



e) affections of the circulation : .... 2 = 6 °/o 



/) meteorization 2=6% - — 



Foreign bodies: — — 1= 2.56 % 



Affections of the stomach and intestines . . ■ — — 9 = 23.08 % 



g) other internal diseases : 7= 22% 9= 23.08 % 



h) other external diseases: — — — — 



i) unknown causes i = 3 % — — 



Total niimber of dead animals . . 32 = 100 % ^9 



Scope ; 



On 31 December 1914 the federation comprised thirty-four societies, 

 of which twenty-eight were active, had 1,009 members and insured 

 1,202 cattle for a total sum of 393,064 marks. Of these twenty-eight 

 societies onh' five were of old foundation and had adhered to the federation ; 

 twenty-three had been founded by it. The war prevented six societies 



— having 105 members, 148 cattle to insure and an insured sum of 48,000 

 marks — from becoming active. 



On 31 December 1915 the federation comprised thirty-five societies 

 of which twenty-six were active, among them the three new societies of 

 Althof-Insterburg, Deubben and Geierswalde. 



Of the other societies two, those of .Siesiack and Monczen, resumed on 

 I January 1916 the activity which the}' had been obliged to interrupt in 

 consequence of the war ; and three societies, also obliged to suspend business 



— those of Gerkichnen, Prostken and Kakowen — , as well as two new soci- 

 eties — of Augustponen and Enzuhnen — , will probably have had part in the 



